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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Silly Sunday: BYO

So, how was the movie? i asked as the kids came in from seeing the latest release."It was good," Bigger Girl said, "but I really wish it wasn't so expensive to go!""Yeah, I spend so much on the ticket, I don't get anything to eat or drink, and sometimes I wish I could," Little Girl added."I wish we could just bring our own!" Bigger Girl said.That reminds me of a joke.Boudreaux and Thibodeaux go in de local bar an' each order a beer. Den dey each takes a sammich outta de paper bags dey have wit' dem, an' starts to eat.Gaston, de barkeep, rush over an' start to yell, "Mais, what you t'ink you be doin'? You cain't bring in you own sammiches in here!"So Boudreaux and Thibodeaux looks at each other, shrug, and trade sammiches!

Today is:

#2 Pencil Day -- internet generated, but since a pencil can draw a line 35 miles long, write under water, in zero gravity, or upside down, what's not to celebrate!

Prekmurje Union Day -- Slovenia (celebrates the Slovenes in Prekmurje being Incorporated into the Mother Nation)

Rushbearing -- Forest Chapel, Cheshire, England (ancient tradtion of bringing new rushes, plaited in traditional weaves, to carpet the church and keep it warm, always on the first Sunday after Aug. 12)

San Martin Day -- Argentina (death anniversary of General Jose de San Martin, liberator of Argentina, chile, and Peru)

St. Hyacinth's Day (Patron of Camalaniugan, Philippines; Ermita de Piedra de San Jacinto, Philippines; Kradow, Poland; Lithuania; Poland; against drowning)

The Peace of Bergerac gives political rights to the Huguenots, 1577John White returns to Roanoke, Virginia, to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier, 1590Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins its first trip up the Hudson River, 1807Solymon Merrick patents the wrench, 1835The first bank in Hawaii opens, 1858Patent granted for an electric self starter for automobiles, 1891Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opens in Seattle, 1907Fantasmagorie by Émile Cohl, the first animated cartoon, is shown in Paris, 1908First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California, 1953Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana, 1958East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall, 1962Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing $1.5 billion in damage, 1969Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus), 1970Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine, 1978The first Compact Discs are released to the public in Germany, 1982The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts, 2005Afghan archeologists discover the remains of a Buddhist site located south of Kabul, 2010Trogloraptor marchingtoni, an unusual spider discovered in 2010 is determined to be a new family of spiders previously unknown in the world of science; the new spider family has been named Trogloraptor, meaning 'cave robber', 2012